94: east bay frontage road path

For the next month, my training life will not be "as usual" since most weekdays I won't be able to make the group training events. I'll be at the store in Berkeley until 6pm :(

So for the first time today, instead of making it to the track, I drove to the Ashby exit off highway 80 (basically Berkeley), parked and ran along the paved path parallel to the frontage road back towards University and then back. I forgot my iPod and didn't know the distance so pushed myself to finish as quickly as possible. I used my phone as a stopwatch and clocked in each way at 11:52min. Total distance was 2.54miles out and back which converted to a 9:20/mile!

The nice part about this exercise was the view. The sun was setting and the ocean breeze kept me cool. Now that I've mapped it, I know that I should be running farther and can slow my pace to increase my mileage successfully.